linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup for all arches

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Message-ID: <e23a44ba-5e9d-d27b-b5e8-0cce3b158ed7@suse.de>
Date:   Sat, 22 May 2021 07:14:25 +0200
From:   Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/firmware: consolidate EFI framebuffer setup
 for all arches

Hi

Am 21.05.21 um 21:37 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> The register_gop_device() function registers an "efi-framebuffer" platform
> device to match against the efifb driver, to have an early framebuffer for
> EFI platforms.
> 
> But the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) already has support for this.
> 
> Instead of having duplicated logic for x86 and other architectures using
> EFI, consolidate the two in sysfb and remove it from the EFI init logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
> ---
> 
>   arch/arm/Kconfig                  |  1 +
>   arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h        |  5 +-
>   arch/arm64/Kconfig                |  1 +
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h      |  5 +-
>   arch/riscv/Kconfig                |  1 +
>   arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h      |  5 +-
>   drivers/firmware/Kconfig          |  7 ++-
>   drivers/firmware/Makefile         |  2 +-
>   drivers/firmware/efi/efi-init.c   | 90 -------------------------------
>   drivers/firmware/efi/sysfb_efi.c  | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   drivers/firmware/sysfb.c          | 40 +++++++++-----
>   drivers/firmware/sysfb_simplefb.c | 29 ++++++----
>   include/linux/sysfb.h             | 28 +++++-----
>   13 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 24804f11302..30ba195ca72 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ config ARM
>   	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
>   	select RTC_LIB
>   	select SET_FS
> +	select SYSFB

Don't select this as part of the architecture. Rather make an option for 
SYSFB that depends in the architectures that supports it.

Best regards
Thomas


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